Red Schoendienst (Albert Fred Schoendienst) Quotes
I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
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I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.
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I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
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I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, and raised in Eagan, which is right by Burnsville. I've been in that area my whole life.
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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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I choose to express myself.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
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Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.
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I have a love for boxing.
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Yes, we get death threats every week... from the Muslims.
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Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.
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I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.
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But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult.
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I've had several unavoidable problems because of my athletic career.
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I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.
